From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Coherent vs. Linux - a comparo Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 00:07:20 GMT
In article <THKORDE.93Jun24174910@limbo.ncsc.mil> thkorde@ncsc.mil (Todd Kordenbrock) writes:
>In article <C900yr.7x4@news.claremont.edu> jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>
> You can do the same thing with Linux. It supports virtual screens
> quite handily, with mouse-based cut-and-paste between them. Pretty
> slick, in my experience.
>
>Are you saying that the text based linux (ie. no X) supports
>cut-and-paste between consoles....if so, my considering upgrading my
>machine to 8Mb of mem before installing linux will be put on hold.
Yes, using the selection patches, which were up to version 1.4 last I
looked, and I believe are still being maintained by the author. Look
on the standard Linux archive sites.
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